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Message no. 1
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: More Smart Frames
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 11:37:00 -0700
>>Huh? What's the basis for this? (I just checked, and VR doesn't say
>>anything of the sort - though it does have an example of a frame draggin
>>itself back to the decker whou launched it and giving a report just before
>>it falls apart; if they were in constant contact, why did the frame have
>>to return instead of just sending its report along this line of constant
>>communication?)

Why else would they take up memory in your cyberdeck?

>>But with a little fancy footwork, I can reattach that process to another
>>machine. I cannot believe that you couldn't in 2054 write a program,
>>inject it into a computer system, and then have it sit there while you log
>>out, perhaps watching the clock for a certain time to come around or
>>something.

Security measures would prevent that. Why else would you have to make a
Computer roll to do a system operation? Because without the proper security
passwords you cannot do anything in a system except wander around unguarded
nodes.

>>We can do it today.

But you can't in 2054 :)

>>And _if_, as common believe here is, a deck is nothing more than a
>>filter/inturrpreter for the information, a client so to speak, then what
>>the hell uses load on the machine you are jacking into?

A cyberdeck is a specialized computer designed to produce and interpet a VR
that allows easy use of the computer Matrix. It is capable of running programs.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker

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